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2 Sheets-Shem; '1. E. N. DICKERSON & J. J. SUGKERT. APPARATUS FOR BURNING AGETYLENE GAS.

Patented June 22,1897.

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APPARATUS FOR BURNING A'GETYLENE GAS.

No. 584,772. Patented June 22, 1897.

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EDIVARD N. DIOKERSON AND JULIUS J. SUOKERT, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y.

APPARATUS FOR BURNING ACETYLENE GAS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 584,772, dated June 22, 1897.

Application filed January 23,1897. Serial No. 620,340. (No model.)

To (0Z3 whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, EDWARD N. DICK- nnsoN and JULIUS J. Suonnnr, of the city,

county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Burning Acetylene Gas on Moving Vehicles, of which the following is a full, true, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a combination of apparatus by means of which a burner and process more fully described in an application of Maximilian Grimm, filed on the 15th day of January, 1897, Serial No. 619,357, can be effectively utilized. In that process it is required that the acetylene gas shall be supplied through one tube and the gas and air pressure be delivered to the burner through another tube. The air-pressure may be so delivered through two separate pipes substantially at right angles to each other at about the burner-tip.

The ordinary railway-car is supplied with brakes operated by air-pressure. By our invention we utilize the air-pressure at present in tanks underthe cars to furnish the airpressure desired for burning acetylene gas in the manner above described.

Our invention will be readily understood from the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical elevation of a car arranged for our invention; Fig. 2, a plan view of the bottom of the car, looking clown- I ward, the car being partly broken away; and

Fig. 3, a general arrangement of a car-lamp which has itself special features of merit.

A represents the body of the car or moving vehicle, having brakes operated from the airtank B.

We do not fully describe the brake connections and means of operating them, since they form no part of our invention.

The tank B is supplied with air-pressure through the hose 0 in the ordinary way and serves the double purpose of operating the brake-cylinder D at high pressure and of supplying the air-pressure required for the burner at low pressure through the governor E. The tank B should likewise be provided with valve F, for the purpose hereinafter to be described. The car is provided, likewise,

with a gas'supply G, as shown, a cylinder of liquefied acetylene gas connecting with the regulating-valve H, which is itself connected with gas-pipe g to the burner.

The air-pressure passes by pipe K likewise to the burner. The burner maybe of anyusual form, provided it embodies the process previously described, but in the form shown the air-pressure passes down through the tube L, surrounding the gas-pipe g, and is thence delivered by pipes M M to small horizontal or delivery pipes L at the burner.

As acetylene gas decomposes at high temperature, by this arrangement we perform the double function of protecting the acetylene from the heat of the flame, while at the same time the air which is delivered there is somewhat heated, not sufliciently, however, to prevent its proper operation.

If the car should be uncoupled from the train and thereby there should be liability of losing the air-pressure, the valve F should be closed while the tank 13 was filled with airpressure, which could then be separately used to feed the burners until the car was again coupled to the train.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination in a car, of a gas supply and regulating valve and a pipe delivering to a burner, the air-tank having connection to the brake system of the car, and a connection through a reducing-valve to a pipe leading to the burner, whereby the air of the tank may be used for the double purpose of operating the brake and supplying air to the burner, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the gas-tank G, the governing-valve H, the pipe g, the air-tank B connecting with the cylinder D, and through reducing-valve E with pipe K, the pipes g and K uniting at the burner, substantially as described.

3. The combination in a car-lighting device for burning acetylene gas, of the pipes K and 9, connected with the gas and air supply tanks B and G, the pipe K, being carried to the lamp-jet inside of the pipe K, or its extension, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

E. N. DIOKERSON. JULIUS J. SUOKERT. 

